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Yellow Dancers by Edgar Degas is one of those images that never dates. Our studio recreates it as a hand painted oil painting — textured, color-rich, and ready to hang as canvas wall art in a hallway, study, or reception area.
In the Wings
1876
Oil on canvas
73 cm (28.74 in.) x 60 cm (23.62 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago, United States.
Approximately half of Edgar Degas' entire output of paintings and pastels concerns dancers. Perhaps he recognized a parallel between their art - in which precise, demanding techniques are made to appear effortless and beautiful - and his own. Examining the dancer at rest, in rehearsal, behind the scenes, and onstage, he took an almost documentary approach to this subject. Among the twenty-four works shown by Degas at the second Impressionist exhibition, in 1876, were several ballet scenes, including the Art Institute's Yellow Dancers (In the Wings). Degas executed Yellow Dancers quickly and confidently, applying paint thinly and making few alterations after it had dried. Three ballerinas preen in the foreground of this radical composition. Absorbed in the task of adjusting their costumes, they are bathed in light that seems to be filtered through golden gauze. Their curvaceous forms echo the shape of the stage flat behind them; beyond that artificial barrier, we glimpse the calves and feet of a number of dancers. Such unexpected juxtapositions, cut-off forms, and two-dimensional patterning - effects Degas had absorbed from Japanese woodblock prints - heighten the sense of immediacy.
Degas' preoccupation with dancers was social as well as formal: he often made quite explicit references in his work to the backstage interactions that took place between female performers and their gentlemen patrons. The women's primping, therefore, is not only for the ticket-holding audience, but for other onlookers as well - in this case, the artist himself and the painting's viewers.
The figurative subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of impressionist oil painting wall decor.
From primer to varnish, the work is done manually on artist-grade canvas. The absence of digital printing is deliberate: it keeps the figurative brushwork visible and gives the impressionist oil painting wall decor a museum-like finish.
As hallway wall art, this canvas brings color and texture without visual noise. It scales well from a small study to a large hallway feature wall, and it is a reliable choice when shopping for portrait oil painting as a gift.
Whether the search term is portrait oil painting, hallway wall art, or impressionist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $77.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $120.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $166.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $221.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $430.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
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